Campus Risbergska has been the center for municipal adult education in Örebro since 2017. But previously, Risbergska was a high school and almost ten years ago, an access control system was installed, according to P4 Örebro.
But the system is not used and instead, Risbergska has been an open school building. Something that is being questioned after Tuesday's school shooting where at least ten people were killed – and at least six more injured – by a perpetrator who then took his life.
It should be characterized by openness. That means that Campus Risbergska is not just a school, it's also a meeting place for all adults who have different activities, and therefore, it was not possible to reconcile with locking the school from the beginning, explains Mokhtar Bennis, Örebro Municipality's head of upper secondary and adult education, to the radio.
The property owner's CEO says to P4 Örebro that it would have been easy to use the locking system, since the major cost was the installation itself.
However, it may become relevant to lock the school in the future, according to Mokhtar Bennis.
The other day, Education Minister Lotta Edholm (The Liberals) told Sveriges Radio that she wants to see locked schools as the main rule from now on.
